Jeffrey Greene

Jeffrey Greene is the author of five collections of poems and a book of cross-genre sketches. His memoir French Spirits (HarperCollins/Transworld) has appeared in eight countries, and he has written three personalized nature books. A fourth nature book on seven forests that provide tone wood for some of the world's greatest musical instruments is forthcoming. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and Humanities Texas, and he received the Randall Jarrell Award, the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award, and Samuel French Morse Prize. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, American Scholar, and many other periodicals. He is currently a professor at the American University of Paris and teaches for the Pan-European Low Residency MFA Program.